Trump’s victory speaks to a crumbling liberal order

Chomsky saw this coming 6 years ago when he said:

"If somebody comes along who is charismatic and honest, this country is in real trouble because of the frustration, disillusionment, the justified anger and the absence of any coherent response. What are people supposed to think if someone says ‘I have got an answer, we have an enemy’? There it was the Jews. Here it will be the illegal immigrants and the blacks. We will be told that white males are a persecuted minority. We will be told we have to defend ourselves and the honor of the nation. Military force will be exalted. People will be beaten up. This could become an overwhelming force. And if it happens it will be more dangerous than Germany. The United States is the world power. Germany was powerful but had more powerful antagonists. I don’t think all this is very far away. If the polls are accurate it is not the Republicans but the right-wing Republicans, the crazed Republicans, who will sweep the next election"

Admittedly, "charismatic and honest" doesn't match Trump.  If it did it would be even worse, but this pretty much tells our story and as I said long ago, I am not surprised.

How did this happen we ask in shock?  Well, everyone was so feed up they didn't vote and they didn't have a candidate and white guys were sold a bill of good about jobs and enemies and how they were right to hate.  In his resent article cataloging hopeful projects around the world Michael Meurer sums up the the results:

Alas for their delusions. Trump is the ultimate globalist. He simply wants the world to return to the US-led colonial order of 1950s Eisenhower-era capitalism, albeit under a fascistic cult of personality rather than with an avuncular retired general and war hero as national figurehead. It is a fantasy that will be dissolved by acid reality with unpredictable consequences

One of the unintended consequences that acid reality includes is that we are now talking about the deep state and a coup. David Talbot's SF Chronicle piece "Washington's coup fever heats up" illustrates the cracks in the empire, but such a coup would only serve to cement and consolidate corporate/state power in the very system that brought us to this point, not change the conditions that make the rise of a totalitarian world dominator so inevitable.  Each side of this coin leads to the same place while wearing different clothing. That game is rigged. Unless of course we strip the clothing off, expose the domination beneath it all and change it fundimentally.  The timid need not apply.

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